You have obviously heard me rage against the “Religious Right” but now the Wall Street Journal reported on “The Rise of the Religious Left” by Steven Malanga.
Well this piqued my interest especially when the author stated “Liberals are just as adept as conservatives at invoking God to promote their pet causes”. What actually would these pet causes be?
Well the author feels these religious leftists are basically socialists or communists favoring unionism and against nonunion businesses like Wal- Mart.
Recently I got a glimpse at these leftists in action as the Detroit Archdiocese (Catholics) started targeting legislators that refused to give in to the SCHIP propaganda. You remember my previous blogs against this health welfare scheme that pretended it was for poor children but actually was a ruse to bring in socialized medicine.
Jesus has been called a socialist, even the first communist since he was against the rich (easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to be allowed into heaven) get it?
In his days, people got rich on the backs of the poor and poverty was “abject” poverty then. That is why Christianity took root so fast, poor people thought that when they died they became rich and the rich were thrown into hell.
Letters in response to the article were also interesting saying that the religious left is anti-war whereas the religious right justifies war (against the infidels). The left fought to end segregation and slavery the right tried to religiously justify it, etc….
Well we could go on and on about all this but to me both sides are using religion to justify their way of thinking but I think the left is a lot closer to the “what would Jesus do” approach. Have you heard the new breed of tele-evangelists preaching “Jesus wants you to be rich” but I digress.
Well this piqued my interest especially when the author stated “Liberals are just as adept as conservatives at invoking God to promote their pet causes”. What actually would these pet causes be?
Well the author feels these religious leftists are basically socialists or communists favoring unionism and against nonunion businesses like Wal- Mart.
Recently I got a glimpse at these leftists in action as the Detroit Archdiocese (Catholics) started targeting legislators that refused to give in to the SCHIP propaganda. You remember my previous blogs against this health welfare scheme that pretended it was for poor children but actually was a ruse to bring in socialized medicine.
Jesus has been called a socialist, even the first communist since he was against the rich (easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to be allowed into heaven) get it?
In his days, people got rich on the backs of the poor and poverty was “abject” poverty then. That is why Christianity took root so fast, poor people thought that when they died they became rich and the rich were thrown into hell.
Letters in response to the article were also interesting saying that the religious left is anti-war whereas the religious right justifies war (against the infidels). The left fought to end segregation and slavery the right tried to religiously justify it, etc….
Well we could go on and on about all this but to me both sides are using religion to justify their way of thinking but I think the left is a lot closer to the “what would Jesus do” approach. Have you heard the new breed of tele-evangelists preaching “Jesus wants you to be rich” but I digress.
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